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It was a Dutch West India Company colony called New Amsterdam before it became the English Colony of New York named for the Duke of York.

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Historically, the first people that lived in New York were from the Algonquin tribe. Another historical fact is that New York City was Americaâ??s capital city in the late 18th century.

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